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> Or stop taxing "profits" By "profits" I meant to stop business being able to claim expenses and reduce the tax. We could replace complex taxation scheme only

> Or stop taxing "profits" By "profits" I meant to stop business being able to claim expenses and reduce the tax. We could replace complex taxation scheme only-on-positive-profit with a simple 1% (for example) tax on all transfers, on the total amount, no matter what is the purpose of the money transfer

tonyedgecombe 8y ago
The trouble with that is it will penalise low margin businesses, Apple could easily afford it on their 30% margin but a budget PC maker with a 3% margin would struggle.
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- ttoinou 8y ago
  Small businesses are already penalized by our current laws and ways of taxing profits. I believe the alternative I am proposing (that will never come to reality) is easier for everyone
  - magduf 8y ago
    Sure, it's easier, but it also means you'll just have a bunch of giant vertically-integrated monopolies. Easier, sure, but I don't see how that's better.
    - ttoinou 8y ago
      It's better because it's cheaper for everyone to do business. More competition, everything gets cheaper.
icebraining 8y ago
That incentivizes the creation of vertically-integrated conglomerates over small companies, in order to reduce the number of transactions; is that what you want to foster?
- ttoinou 8y ago
  You need to take into account all the simplification it would imply in tax collection / paperwork / regulations etc. The cost of our current ways of taxing wealth and profits is huge
  - JimmyAustin 8y ago
    In the US, the IRS collected $3.33 trillion in revenue in 2018, with a total budget of 11.5 billion (2017). Thats 0.3453%, or 35c per $100 of tax revenue. Fairly minor in the scheme of things.
    - ttoinou 8y ago
      Monetary costs are a small subset of general costs (and the cheapest ones, easier to know and aggregate).
    - jpadkins 8y ago
      that's only one side of the ledger (collection). Now calculate the costs to the taxpayers (people and corps).

tonyedgecombe 8y ago

The trouble with that is it will penalise low margin businesses, Apple could easily afford it on their 30% margin but a budget PC maker with a 3% margin would struggle.

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ttoinou 8y ago
Small businesses are already penalized by our current laws and ways of taxing profits. I believe the alternative I am proposing (that will never come to reality) is easier for everyone
- magduf 8y ago
  Sure, it's easier, but it also means you'll just have a bunch of giant vertically-integrated monopolies. Easier, sure, but I don't see how that's better.
  - ttoinou 8y ago
    It's better because it's cheaper for everyone to do business. More competition, everything gets cheaper.

icebraining 8y ago

That incentivizes the creation of vertically-integrated conglomerates over small companies, in order to reduce the number of transactions; is that what you want to foster?

ttoinou 8y ago
You need to take into account all the simplification it would imply in tax collection / paperwork / regulations etc. The cost of our current ways of taxing wealth and profits is huge
- JimmyAustin 8y ago
  In the US, the IRS collected $3.33 trillion in revenue in 2018, with a total budget of 11.5 billion (2017). Thats 0.3453%, or 35c per $100 of tax revenue. Fairly minor in the scheme of things.
  - ttoinou 8y ago
    Monetary costs are a small subset of general costs (and the cheapest ones, easier to know and aggregate).
  - jpadkins 8y ago
    that's only one side of the ledger (collection). Now calculate the costs to the taxpayers (people and corps).